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March 16, 2014

Reach Out

Since last
week, many of you contacted me to comment on the posting “Dare To Dream”. People
told me stories about their dreams and how they either were realizing them or
were working toward that level of accomplishment. Several others commented on
how their dreams were realized by helping others on their own journey.

Never,
ever, ever stop dreaming. It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you are, or
what you dream about, you should dream about what you want to accomplish and
how that can provide satisfaction for you, and your family. Our history is
filled with people whose dreams have meant so much to individuals and to our
society as a whole.

Perhaps
you have accomplished your dreams, or those dreams may have changed since you
first started your journey toward accomplishing them. Just like business goals,
dreams may change as you proceed on the road to attaining them. We should welcome
these opportunities to change, refine, and adjust our dreams and our goals. That
is how we grow and mature in both our personal and business lives.

There is
something else these people can do, and probably have done within their own
journey. Take the time to meet with and encourage others on their journeys to
their dreams. Encouraging others to dream, and then to work toward those
dreams, will bring immense satisfaction to you. In addition, you are sowing
seeds of karma that will return great amounts of good to you. Remember karma?

Be a giver, someone who gives to give, not to get. Givers
get their fair share and more because they don’t give to get. Karma takes care
of their getting back what they give out. Encouraging others to dream, and to
work towards their dreams, enables you to attain your own dreams. Your
encouragement of others may take various forms. It will not be the same for
every one of us or on every day.

You must look at your networking partners, your
relationships that you have built, as people who need your encouragement, your
partnership in mutual success. You both have a vested interest in each other’s
success. Make it happen through encouraging others to reach for their stars, to
reach for their dreams. Of course, as their dreams change, your partnership will
take a supportive part in those changes themselves.

This past week, I met with several people with whom I am
building networking partnerships or relationships. We may pass referrals to
each other; we may just encourage each other to dream. We might inform each
other about anything that may help us to succeed in business; we might just
chat about opportunities to apply what we already know about our business
marketing. It does not matter.

Look around you at your business relationships; look at your
networking partners. Who do you know who can benefit from the information or
knowledge that you have and can share? Information is power and should be
shared to the benefit of others. We should not hoard our encouragement and information.
We must reach out and share.

Please leave me your comments, or email me at Jim@JimTeasley.com, or call me at 360-314-8691. Continue to dare to dream and then look for others that
need you. Reach out and encourage someone today to dream. Work to help your
partners reach their dreams and to revise those dreams as needed. Then do it
all over again. Maybe they will join your efforts to reach out to even more who
need partners.